the moss garden

In June 1984, on the eve of the Summer Solstice, Hawkwind played a legendary set at Stonehenge free festival. Druids were gathered at the stones awaiting the sunrise. Among their number there was rumoured to be one William Roache, Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow. Hawkwind’s saxaphone player, Nik Turner, who was a singer and frontman in this incarnation of the band, began a chant, “ken Bar low, Ken Bar Low’ which was taken up by the crowd.

To this day travellers on Salisbury plain, the summer walkers and leyline wanderers, tell of hearing a low bellowed sound humming in the hollows and dens of this cairn strewn expanse,

Ken

Bar

Low